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HOW TO ENLIST

INFORMATION/FOR RECRUITS ■'V A DEFENCE PAMPHLET The following pamphlet, as a guide to recruits, has been issued by tho Defenco Department: — Apply to the .nearest Defence Office or post oilice for-information and regis-tration-card. l'ill in the card and send it to the nearest Defence Office (no stamp required). When you are eallcd on for medical examination do not give up your civil employment. Medical examination is only a stage in the proceedings, after which yon return to work and wait until you aro ordered to parade. Due notice will be given so that arrangements may be made to settle private affairs. Serving Territorials must register through their unit commanders. Registration-cards received by the Defence authorities "will be acknowledged. The acknowledgment will be given a registration (serial) number, which should be referred to in all subsequent correspondence. Intending recruits who change their place of residence must notify the Defence Office with whom the.v registered. Should- they go to another district they must re-register in the new distriot. Enlistment is for the period of the war and until such time thereafter as may be necessary for return and discharge in New Zealand. Every soldier is required to take tho Oath of Allegiance to His Majesty the King in a prescribed form. Age must be between twenty and forty years. ■ Height must bo over oft. 4in. Weight must be under twelve stone. Fit for service. The medical examination requires amongst other matters that a recruit should have good eyesight, good hearing, ho ruptures, no defects, not- subject to fits, and be possessed of sufficient teeth for efficient mastication. In the interests of himself and of his. comrades, every soldier is required to havo been vaccina ted' and inoculated for- enteric. No recruit will be accepted unless ho agrees to vaccination and inoculation. All equipment, ' clothing, , blankets, etc., will be provided free by the New Zealand Government. . Before leaving New Zealand men are liable to bo trained for at least four (<1) months at Trentham. Men who enlist for service with tho Expeditionary 'Force receive pay at Territorial Force rates for the first month in camp—that is, 4s. per day in the case of privates. The whole of this money is paid direct to.the men at intervals of ten to fifteen days. At the end of the first month pay is increased to Expeditionary Force rates —that is, os per day in tho' case of privates; From this pay is deducted any allotments that the men desire to make.

'In addition to pay, a separation allowance of Is.-per-day will be granted to "married N.U.O.'s ■ and privates from June 1, 1915, in the case of those already in the ; force on that date, and from the'date of enlistment in the case .of other married N.C.O.'s and privates

Only 2s. a day 7 can be drawn aftbr embarkation, the balance, if not allotted, being held as ■ deferred pay, and paid to the soldier on discharge or on return to New Zealand of death, paid to next-of-kin or legal representative. "Each man on arrival at camp, at the same time as he is attested, will have to sign a form-,giving the Defence authorities power to utilise' any portion of his deferred pay;;or one-half of his total pay, for the benefit of any of his family left unprovided for,. on claims . being made on the dependent's behalf. "Family" mean's' and' includes parents, wife, .legitimate children, and any person in whose ;favour;a, maintenance order ha 6 been or may" hereafter be made under the Destitute Persons Act, 1910.

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Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2503, 2 July 1915, Page 6

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HOW TO ENLIST Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2503, 2 July 1915, Page 6

HOW TO ENLIST Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2503, 2 July 1915, Page 6

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